Vibecoder uses Claude to find potential dwarf planet twice as far as Pluto, hidden for 12 years

Polymarket · x · 2026-11-12

Per Polymarket: a vibe coder used Claude to analyze public telescope data and identify a potential dwarf planet located roughly twice as far from the Sun as Pluto — an object that had sat unnoticed in the data for 12 years. Another striking AI-for-science win by an individual with an LLM.

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